11. Traditional surgical approaches include gastrostomy followed by gastric pull-up, colonic transposition and jejunum transposition. 12. Evidence for the restoration of function includes decreasing gastrostomy tube returns and increasing discharge varies between procedures. 13. Gastrostomy , or G-tube, allows for tube feedings into the stomach through the abdominal wall.14. A gastrostomy can be placed to decompress the stomach contents in a patient with a malignant bowel obstruction. 15. Many patients have a gastrostomy tube ( g-tube ) inserted for medication and / or feeds. 16. In certain situations where normal or nasogastric feeding is not possible, gastrostomy may be of no clinical benefit. 17. In 1858, he performed practically the first gastrostomy in England for a case of cancer of the oesophagus. 18. Fundoplications ( by preventing regurgitation ) and gastrostomy tubes ( to provide nonoral nutrition ) have reduced the frequency of hospitalization. 19. He proposed the operation of gastrostomy in cases of intussusception of the bowels, and introduced some improvements in surgical instruments. 20. Quality improvement protocols have been developed with the aim of reducing the number of non-beneficial gastrostomies in patients with dementia.
